Friday, November 21, 2003

A Northern California Conference Against Privatization & Contracting Out November 23 (Sunday), 2003, 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM   Free Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park,9th Ave. & Lincoln, San Francisco The threat of privatization and contracting out of work is growing at a rapid rate. The plan of the Bush administration to privatize 850,000 federal jobs and the ongoing  privatization of thousands of jobs in San Francisco and the Bay Area must be confronted. From the San Francisco Presidio, the Edison Project in the schools, the U.S. Postal Service, Air Traffic Controllers, Golden Gate Park, UC-SF and a myriad of other areas, labor and our communities are under attack. NAFTA and the FTAA enforce these policies and the WTO/IMF & World Bank are actively pushing to implement them in every country of the world. At present, most working people and members of the public are unaware of the real dangers of privatization, contracting out and deregulation. We need to begin to build a national campaign that unites not only all of labor but the communities. In San Francisco at the Golden Gate Park, gardeners are being replaced by volunteers. Millionaire William Hellman is pushing city planners out of McClaren Lodge and replacing them with high paid consultants. At the US post office, non-union Federal Express is now moving more of the mail and destroying postal jobs. We want your reports at the conference so we can arm ourselves in the up coming struggles. Speakers (Partial List) Jill Wynns - Member SF Board of Education* Eugene Coyle - Economist Dan Berman - Author "Who Owns The Sun Mark Loy - SEIU 1000 PUC* Louis Garcia - President- AFGE 3899 Michael Lyons - Emergency Coalition to Save Public Health Steve Willis - Alliance For Golden Gate Park Bob Marsh - Western Reg. VP National  Air Traffic Controllers Union* Carl Bryant - NALC 214* Mike Crahan - LIUNA 1141 SF Presidio* Charles Minster - LIUNA 216* Mary Ann Ring - SF CUE UCSF* Terry McDevitt, Golden Gate Park Gardner, LIUNA 216* Jim Jontz, ADA Robert Frank, Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers * For identification only Campaign Against Taft-Hartley, Repression and Privatization P.O. Box 15086 San Francisco, CA 94115 For information about the conference contact Carltv214@aol.com, lvpsf@labornet.org, gata@infinex.com (415) 556-4162, (415) 282-1908 11:15:13 AM    comment []

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